Upon using these two methods for the first time recently, my expectation was they would automatically set the column name for me given their specific method names.

I addressed this tiny paper-cut by defaulting the column name inline with Laravel's naming convention (snake case) for both the ipAddress and macAddress methods.

Before

$table->ipAddress('ip_address');
$table->macAddress('mac_address');

After equivalent

$table->ipAddress();
$table->macAddress();

Note: I considered this a breaking change since it updates the method signatures. However, this could be defaulted in another way to merge into Laravel 8.x if desired.